Actor Wayne Rogers Dies At Age 82

Actor turned Fox News pundit Wayne Rogers died yesterday at age 82. Via CNN:

Rogers, who portrayed the wise-cracking Army surgeon “Trapper” John McIntyre in the first three seasons of TV’s “M*A*S*H,” died Thursday, his publicist Rona Menashe told Reuters. Rogers died of complications from pneumonia in Los Angeles, Menashe told Reuters. Rogers’ Trapper John was one half of “M*A*S*H”‘s lead tandem of joke-cracking physicians in the early seasons of CBS’ Korean War comedy-drama, paired with Alan Alda’s Benjamin “Hawkeye” Pierce. But Rogers left the series in a contract dispute the mid-70s, his character written off as having been discharged, replaced by Mike Farrell’s B.J. Hunnicut. Rogers had other TV and movie roles, including a turn as San Francisco surgeon Charley Michaels in the TV comedy “House Calls” from 1979 to 1982.

Rogers left acting in the late 80s and became a successful investor, which lead to appearances on Fox News. Last year PolitiFact gave Rogers its “Pants On Fire” rating for his on-air claim that President Obama had lied to the public over 200 times. In the first clip below, Rogers declared that the United States has a  “fascist economy.” In the second clip, Rogers called for the imprisonment of now-former Attorney General Eric Holder.